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Port Latta, Tasmania

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Coordinates: 40°51′07″S 145°22′52″E / 40.852°S 145.381°E / -40.852; 145.381
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Port Latta is a port in northern Tasmania used to export iron ore from the Savage River mine.

Ore is transported from mine to port by a slurry pipeline. This pipeline is 85 km long.

The mine and port opened in 1967,[1] and was still operating in 2011.

After de-watering, the ore is loaded onto ships via conveyor belts.[2]

The capacity of the mine, pipeline and conveyor belt is about 1MTpa.

The slurry pipeline is paralleled by a road called Pipeline Road.

References

  1. ^ Pipeliner
  2. ^ Conveyor belts

40°51′07″S 145°22′52″E / 40.852°S 145.381°E / -40.852; 145.381


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